Alice Mann The Night Is Young

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Alice Mann’s THE NIGHT IS YOUNG . This is a book of South African school- leavers at their Matric Balls. Photographed between 2018 and 2023, and at thirteen different high schools, the book presents a comprehensive study of South African youth at a momentous point in their lives.

The book is designed by Stuart Smith and clothbound in a vibrant blue with a gilded title, fittingly regal for the nights within. Each of these events have been long prepared for, long-longed for — an ultimate crescendo of the creation of self. This is a prepared portrait of who they are. The school corridors are their Met Steps, the dining hall their Oscars stage: it is their big day, and they go big...

THE NIGHT IS YOUNG
Alice Mann

Poem by Maureen Onwunali

Essay by Catherine E. McKinley

Designed by SMITH

Clothbound hardcover with tip-on image and gold foiling on spine and back

28 x 23cm 112 pages

First edition of 500 copies.